RRR was not nominated for the award in 2023 but critical opinion widely favoured it and one would not have been surprised if it had. But awards have become so much more tolerant in the area of ‘seriousness’ that action films – once considered too flippant – have become contenders. Top Gun - Maverick, which was nominated for this year, is an action film and the sequel of an earlier film Top Gun (1986) which was nominated only for technical awards - although it was not inferior to this one.
Then, there was also the rule that the ‘Best Picture’ had to be in English and films in other languages were eligible only for the Oscar for ‘Best International Film’.Īlso Read | Oscars welcome, but what do they signal?įor some reason none of these factors seem to be relevant today when a South Korean film like ‘ Parasite’ (2019) is named ‘Best Picture’ and another like the Swedish film Triangle of Sadness (2022) is nominated. Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ (1972) and its sequel ‘ The Godfather (Part 2)’ (1974) are not of the gangster genre – although they are about gangsters - but are more epic-like in scope, and they both received the award. Genre categories have not won the award and it is the ‘film drama’ that is thus favoured, and preferably made on an epic scale. Alfred Hitchcock, for instance, received the recognition only for ‘ Rebecca’ (1940), not a film regarded very highly and it is his ‘Vertigo’ (1958) that is widely held to be among the greatest films ever made. When one studies film history, one quickly realises that the films or directors most esteemed in the US have not won the award.
Since visibility is something that most people wish for, it makes sense not to sneer at it but speculate on the kinds of films that win it, and also on how one might make a film deliberately to aim for the honour. The Oscar may not connote the best cinema but winning the Academy Award for ‘Best Picture’ gives a film more immediate visibility internationally than any other film award because of the glamour associated with it.
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